Me... grew up in the UK. Born in Bath, studied in Leeds, worked in London and partied hard pretty much everywhere! Now live in Perth, Western Australia with my wife and two beautiful kids.
I fell into the house/rave scene during the early 90s while at Leeds Uni. The Gallery, Back to Basics and Corn Exchange raves were my weekend hang outs and I was always fascinated by what went on in the DJ booth. I finally got to try out mixing on a mates crappy cheap decks and was instantly addicted. He loaned me his set up soon after and even though I was pretty terrible technically I really enjoyed honing my skills. But in time he moved on and took his decks with him. I couldn't afford my own and found myself drifting away from Djing and into other things.
Fast forward ten years and I was introduced to Abelton Live by a mate. I grabbed the Intro version and started messing around on it creating some programmed “mixes” for friends. This led me to think about getting back into Djing. I soon discovered the emerging world of digi controllers and grabbed one. While I get its a poor relation to ‘real’ vinyl Djing I actually found it an affordable way to re-enter the scene and that suited me perfectly. And I've since added a couple of turntables back into my home set up too!
Huge respect to all the producers and DJs doing their thing in the funk genres. I'll listen to pretty much anything funky and SoundCloud has been great in introducing me to a much wider range of labels, artists and music than I had been party to before. The sharing of dope tunes is greatly appreciated by me; Funkybro.
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